... is for reminiscence. Over the weekend I spent some time in my messy back bedroom. My original goal was to bring some organization to the various photo albums that I've removed from the bookcase and are currently lying piled up in various places around the room. Photos are my organizational downfall, and it was pretty much the same with this attempt. I started paging through the albums, quickly getting sucked in by how cute everyone was when they were younger, people and events I have forgotten about, and quickly abandoning any attempt at organizing. I thought I'd share a few examples of what waylaid me.
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| Me, five years old |
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| Me in college with my dulcimer |
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| Ryan eating strawberries, two years old |
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| Ryan in a tree in Rocky Mt. National Park |
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| Justin after catching two fish on one lure in TX |
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| Justin with the inconnu he caught in the Yukon |
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Justin and Ryan trying to catch a squirrel by painting themselves with mud. The plan was that the mud would act as camouflage
and they would be able to hide in that little tree and catch squirrels unaware. Alas, they were not successful.
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I hope your weekend was filled with lots of things that brought a big smile to your face!
LOL - painting yourself with mud as camouflage. That is the best! What fun pictures Bonny and I will say that the same thing happens to me whenever I try to organize photos. Do you still play the dulcimer?
ReplyDeleteI laughed out loud at the last one!
ReplyDeletestrolling down memory lane is fun. I have photo albums in the family room, I should print some more and fill more but I don't. I look at them virtually :)
ReplyDeleteOh! Memory Lane is such a draw . . . I love the photos you've shared (I didn't know you played the dulcimer!!!) I think photo organization is totally overrated. The value of photos (to me anyway) . . . is the random ramble through a jumble of memories. XO
ReplyDeleteI love to peruse through family photos and yours are awesome!
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful Bonny! You with a Dulcimer?! I am wowed. But those boys, painting themselves with mud... the.best! I am surprised you managed to take a steady photo (I'd have been laughing too hard to do that!)
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with Kym... I have also tried to organize photos, but the rambling through the memories found there... well, it just seems to be more fun to dive into the jumble and see where it takes you!
These memories... such good ones!
I'll bet that mud-painting scheme worked much better in their heads. LOL
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the way with old photos?? It bugs me that they're never organized, but... do I ever look at them when they ARE organized? Rarely... and I'd never think to look for something/someone/someplace that I don't even remember. I love the jumble of it.
ReplyDeleteYour dorm room looks HUGE! And DULCIMER!
ReplyDeleteOur dorm room was a bit larger than the average, but there were three of us living in it. If I can ever organize the messy back bedroom, I can maybe unearth the dulcimer and play it more!
DeleteSo many great memories! I agree, you can't "organize" and "reminisce" at the same time.
ReplyDeleteWhat great photos! I can never organize photos either, too tempting to just sit and look at them all.
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness ... did John even get dinner(s) this weekend? I would've been completely sucked into that happy nostalgia vortex, too! (also, half grimacing/half smiling at Ryan's white(?!?) pants in that last photo ... did they get painted with mud, too?!)
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful photos. I see a resemblance between you at five and Ryan at two. The mud camouflage is just precious. I imagine those two boys had all kinds of adventures together growing up. I know exactly what you mean about trying to organize photos. It's so much more fun to just look at them. And a dulcimer! That looks like fun.
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